My OperaCharger, Staples, and Columbia
Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:29:45 AM
Wednesday 24th
Went shopping-ish today. Woke up at 2, spent some time on mac, slept again, then woke up at 6.30. Woke Danny up at 7.30, and stayed home until Aunt Amy came home from swimming, that was like 10.30. Did some college research. Then, we went shopping. Well first we had lunch, chinese take-out
Yumyumyum. When Danny and I finish our SATs, we're gonna go eat sushi
Went to Radioshack and bought new earplugs and an iPod charger with american plug, so I can charge my computer without an adapter. When I got home I saw that the connection thing has changed, so the american plug will plug into the computer charger, but the norwegian plug will not plug into the iPod charger! And that sucks, but it'll only take a few minutes to fix, with a knife or a V-shaped chisel (right word?) when I get home
Then we went to the pet-store and looked at the guinea-pigs and the mice, and to Staples and got paper, pencils, and stationary. Apparently I have to write thank you notes for all the people I meet at the universities, thank you for meeting me, etc. And, at the Staples, they have these awesome cute paperclips that look like hands and feet! But if you were gonna buy any you had to buy a whole lot, so maybe I will sometime but not now. But they were REALLY cute
Went to the hairdressers to get shampoo and conditioner and stuff. And, she thought my curls were real! A hairdresser thought my curls were real! Joy So bought big 1-litre bottle of shampoo. And it only cost 21 dollars! That's 120 kr!The small bottle (I think 300 ml maybe) is 250 kr in Norway.... Oh, I love it here. But now I have like 1 year's supply of shampoo (just got to make sure no one else uses it). They ordered a 1-litre bottle of conditioner too, so I'll get that before I go home
Then drove to Grandma's house in Teaneck, and Grandma gave me a very nice leather coat (one of the few things she has given me that I will ever wear, it's really nice(!!!)) and a nice pink sweater, which I'll try shrinking in the drier And now that Grandma has shown me all the pictures here at least once, she doesn't quite know what to do with me (since she forgot where the scrabble game is, and I have no idea where to find it) she's leaving me with my computer or to sleep.
Then we went to a restaurant, where we met Aunt Susan and Uncle Peter and Emmy, who showed me the movie she made on iMovie of her hamsters, and one of a dog as well. The place was called International Buffet (it's the restaurant we go to every time I'm here) and I had lots of sushi, and spare ribs and onion rings and mashed potatoes and gravy. And could of had lots more but was stuffed. Then drove home and went to sleep.
My watch has already skipped a combined total of 1 hour and 30 minutes, since I got here 30 hours ago
Thursday 25th
Columbia. Woke up, took shower, met Aunt Susan, drove to parking lot, took bus over bridge, walked to subway, took subway, got off, got on another one, got off that one, and zip, we were at Columbia University!
Caught a guided tour, place was really nice and not too big, and very green and quiet despite being in the middle of Manhattan. It all seemed very nice except for the core curriculum (literature and humanities or art and humanities, plus 3-5 other non math and non-science classes) but I think some of that could be avoided if I applied for the school of engineering instead of Columbia College. BTW, the college is really old.... It was formed before the US was independent, sometime in the 1700s I guess, so back then it was called Kings College. A lot of Nobel Prize winners in Physics have worked there... In the basement of the Pupin building was where the atom was first split. It was the center of research for the Manhattan project. And I always thought the Manhattan project was a silly code name that had nothing to do with it
In the Pupin bulding, I had a talk/meeting/interview with Dr. Dodd (awesome name isn't it?) about physics at Columbia. He was very nice and gave me some papers to look at. I couldn't really place his accent... half American English, half British English. My Aunt, much less shy than I am, asked him where he was from, and he said, he'd grown up in Northern England, and was an undergraduate (took his bachelors degree) in Scotland. So I asked him where in Scotland, and he said Edinburgh! Yay! And I was like: Oh, I'm applying there! And was so much more excited that he went there, long ago, than I was about the place I was right now. Funny
Though, in conclusion, it was nicer than I expected, and I think I could maybe fit in there. Even if it is in the middle of a city. Hmmm...
Oh, something else funny: Grandpa said he didn't really like the sound of Edinburgh (with the wrong pronunciation) because Uncle Mitch has been there once, and he "ate something called haggish" which his stomach couldn't handle. And I don't often dare to disagree with Grandpa, but I couldn't help saying that it's called haggis, and I've been in Edinburgh and really like it, and Uncle Mitch must have a really bad stomach, because I've eaten haggis many times, even in Edinburgh, and it never hurt me, it's very good, in fact it's my favorite food. I didn't have time to mention that Dr. Dodd was an undergraduate there, before Grandpa disappeared to the kitchen.
Tomorrow is Williams (God help me).... After that, Tufts and MIT.
PS: (evening 26th)
I'll tell you about that some other time eh... He called my Carnegie Mellon a hellhole!
Went shopping-ish today. Woke up at 2, spent some time on mac, slept again, then woke up at 6.30. Woke Danny up at 7.30, and stayed home until Aunt Amy came home from swimming, that was like 10.30. Did some college research. Then, we went shopping. Well first we had lunch, chinese take-out
Yumyumyum. When Danny and I finish our SATs, we're gonna go eat sushi Went to Radioshack and bought new earplugs and an iPod charger with american plug, so I can charge my computer without an adapter. When I got home I saw that the connection thing has changed, so the american plug will plug into the computer charger, but the norwegian plug will not plug into the iPod charger! And that sucks, but it'll only take a few minutes to fix, with a knife or a V-shaped chisel (right word?) when I get home
Then we went to the pet-store and looked at the guinea-pigs and the mice, and to Staples and got paper, pencils, and stationary. Apparently I have to write thank you notes for all the people I meet at the universities, thank you for meeting me, etc. And, at the Staples, they have these awesome cute paperclips that look like hands and feet! But if you were gonna buy any you had to buy a whole lot, so maybe I will sometime but not now. But they were REALLY cute
Went to the hairdressers to get shampoo and conditioner and stuff. And, she thought my curls were real! A hairdresser thought my curls were real! Joy
So bought big 1-litre bottle of shampoo. And it only cost 21 dollars! That's 120 kr!The small bottle (I think 300 ml maybe) is 250 kr in Norway.... Oh, I love it here. But now I have like 1 year's supply of shampoo (just got to make sure no one else uses it). They ordered a 1-litre bottle of conditioner too, so I'll get that before I go home Then drove to Grandma's house in Teaneck, and Grandma gave me a very nice leather coat (one of the few things she has given me that I will ever wear, it's really nice(!!!)) and a nice pink sweater, which I'll try shrinking in the drier
And now that Grandma has shown me all the pictures here at least once, she doesn't quite know what to do with me (since she forgot where the scrabble game is, and I have no idea where to find it) she's leaving me with my computer or to sleep.Then we went to a restaurant, where we met Aunt Susan and Uncle Peter and Emmy, who showed me the movie she made on iMovie of her hamsters, and one of a dog as well. The place was called International Buffet (it's the restaurant we go to every time I'm here) and I had lots of sushi, and spare ribs and onion rings and mashed potatoes and gravy. And could of had lots more but was stuffed. Then drove home and went to sleep.
My watch has already skipped a combined total of 1 hour and 30 minutes, since I got here 30 hours ago
Thursday 25th
Columbia. Woke up, took shower, met Aunt Susan, drove to parking lot, took bus over bridge, walked to subway, took subway, got off, got on another one, got off that one, and zip, we were at Columbia University!
Caught a guided tour, place was really nice and not too big, and very green and quiet despite being in the middle of Manhattan. It all seemed very nice except for the core curriculum (literature and humanities or art and humanities, plus 3-5 other non math and non-science classes) but I think some of that could be avoided if I applied for the school of engineering instead of Columbia College. BTW, the college is really old.... It was formed before the US was independent, sometime in the 1700s I guess, so back then it was called Kings College. A lot of Nobel Prize winners in Physics have worked there... In the basement of the Pupin building was where the atom was first split. It was the center of research for the Manhattan project. And I always thought the Manhattan project was a silly code name that had nothing to do with it
In the Pupin bulding, I had a talk/meeting/interview with Dr. Dodd (awesome name isn't it?) about physics at Columbia. He was very nice and gave me some papers to look at. I couldn't really place his accent... half American English, half British English. My Aunt, much less shy than I am, asked him where he was from, and he said, he'd grown up in Northern England, and was an undergraduate (took his bachelors degree) in Scotland. So I asked him where in Scotland, and he said Edinburgh! Yay! And I was like: Oh, I'm applying there! And was so much more excited that he went there, long ago, than I was about the place I was right now. Funny
Though, in conclusion, it was nicer than I expected, and I think I could maybe fit in there. Even if it is in the middle of a city. Hmmm...
Oh, something else funny: Grandpa said he didn't really like the sound of Edinburgh (with the wrong pronunciation) because Uncle Mitch has been there once, and he "ate something called haggish" which his stomach couldn't handle. And I don't often dare to disagree with Grandpa, but I couldn't help saying that it's called haggis, and I've been in Edinburgh and really like it, and Uncle Mitch must have a really bad stomach, because I've eaten haggis many times, even in Edinburgh, and it never hurt me, it's very good, in fact it's my favorite food. I didn't have time to mention that Dr. Dodd was an undergraduate there, before Grandpa disappeared to the kitchen.
Tomorrow is Williams (God help me).... After that, Tufts and MIT.
PS: (evening 26th)
I'll tell you about that some other time eh... He called my Carnegie Mellon a hellhole!
